6月20日失踪的“泰坦号”深海潜艇被证实已经发生爆发,潜艇内五人全遇难。他们的目的是参观“泰坦尼克号”的残骸。
对于资深探险家、英国亿万富翁哈米什·哈丁而言,这次到海底参观全球最著名的船舶残骸的旅程,将是人生最后一次探险。运送这些参观者的潜艇却出现了问题。 以往的报道显示,“泰坦号”潜艇的服役过程并不顺利。
例如,BBC引用了2022年参加过一次下潜的乘客的话。这位乘客表示“泰坦号”潜艇抵达海底后,推进器出现了问题。
据报道,潜水艇驾驶员斯科特·格里菲斯当时喊叫:“不好,我们出现了问题。”
潜水艇的一个推进器产生了向后而不是向前的推力,这意味着潜水艇只能原地打转。驾驶员通过将操控潜水艇的控制器调到相反方向,解决了这个问题。它所使用的控制器是一台经过改造的Logitech F710视频游戏控制器。
去年参加过旅行的一位CBS记者的经历是,由于浮标从发射平台上滑落,一次试潜被取消。在正式下潜后,潜水艇与水面船只的通讯被中断,导致潜水艇未能找到“泰坦尼克号”。(水面船只应负责通过文字信息,引导潜水艇前往“泰坦尼克号”残骸的所在地。)
乘客锡瑞尼克·保尔多塔表示:“我们迷路了。我们迷路了两个半小时。”
参与此次旅程的CBS记者大卫·波格形容这艘潜水艇“制作粗糙,偷工减料,用建筑管材做载压水舱。”
海洋之门探险公司(OceanGate Expeditions)CEO斯托克顿·拉什却反驳这种观点称:“有一些事情必须说清楚。潜艇是我们与波音(Boeing)、NASA和华盛顿大学(University of Washington)合作的成果,并不是粗制滥造的产物。即使出现其他任何故障,例如推进器失灵、照明系统故障等,你依旧是安全的。”事实狠狠打了他的脸。(财富中文网)
译者:刘进龙
审校:汪皓
6月20日失踪的“泰坦号”深海潜艇被证实已经发生爆发,潜艇内五人全遇难。他们的目的是参观“泰坦尼克号”的残骸。
对于资深探险家、英国亿万富翁哈米什·哈丁而言,这次到海底参观全球最著名的船舶残骸的旅程,将是人生最后一次探险。运送这些参观者的潜艇却出现了问题。 以往的报道显示,“泰坦号”潜艇的服役过程并不顺利。
例如,BBC引用了2022年参加过一次下潜的乘客的话。这位乘客表示“泰坦号”潜艇抵达海底后,推进器出现了问题。
据报道,潜水艇驾驶员斯科特·格里菲斯当时喊叫:“不好,我们出现了问题。”
潜水艇的一个推进器产生了向后而不是向前的推力,这意味着潜水艇只能原地打转。驾驶员通过将操控潜水艇的控制器调到相反方向,解决了这个问题。它所使用的控制器是一台经过改造的Logitech F710视频游戏控制器。
去年参加过旅行的一位CBS记者的经历是,由于浮标从发射平台上滑落,一次试潜被取消。在正式下潜后,潜水艇与水面船只的通讯被中断,导致潜水艇未能找到“泰坦尼克号”。(水面船只应负责通过文字信息,引导潜水艇前往“泰坦尼克号”残骸的所在地。)
乘客锡瑞尼克·保尔多塔表示:“我们迷路了。我们迷路了两个半小时。”
参与此次旅程的CBS记者大卫·波格形容这艘潜水艇“制作粗糙,偷工减料,用建筑管材做载压水舱。”
海洋之门探险公司(OceanGate Expeditions)CEO斯托克顿·拉什却反驳这种观点称:“有一些事情必须说清楚。潜艇是我们与波音(Boeing)、NASA和华盛顿大学(University of Washington)合作的成果,并不是粗制滥造的产物。即使出现其他任何故障,例如推进器失灵、照明系统故障等,你依旧是安全的。”事实狠狠打了他的脸。(财富中文网)
译者:刘进龙
审校:汪皓
Rescuers are racing to find the Titan, a deep-sea vessel that went missing on June 20 as it carried five people to see the remains of the Titanic, but time is growing short.
The trip to the bottom of the ocean to see the world’s most famous shipwreck might be the adventure of a lifetime—even for the serial adventurer along for the ride, U.K. billionaire Hamish Harding—but questions are being raised about the craft that takes people to it. The Titan has never had an incident nearly as serious as the current one, but past reports about it show a history of rough waters.
The BBC, for example, quotes passengers from a 2022 dive, talking about problems with the Titan’s thrusters when they reached the ocean floor.
“Oh no. We have a problem,” submersible pilot Scott Griffith reportedly said.
One of the vehicle’s thrusters was thrusting backward instead of forward, which temporarily meant the craft could only rotate in a circle. The issue was resolved by holding the controller that steers the vessel—a modified Logitech F710 video game controller—in the opposite direction.
A CBS correspondent who made the journey last year saw one attempt scrubbed when a float came off the launch platform. And when the dive actually took place, communications between the sub and the surface ship broke down, resulting in the sub never finding the Titanic. (The ship is supposed to guide the sub to the shipwreck via text messages.)
“We were lost,” said passenger Shrenik Baldota. “We were lost for two and a half hours.”
David Pogue, the CBS reporter who went along on the journey, described the submersible as having “some elements of MacGyver jerry-riggedness. I mean, you’re putting construction pipes as ballast.”
OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush pushed back on that description, saying “there are certain things that you want to be buttoned down. The pressure vessel is not MacGyver at all, because that’s where we worked with Boeing and NASA and the University of Washington. Everything else can fail, your thrusters can go, your lights can go. You’re still going to be safe.”